drm/i915/gvt: Use common error handling code in shadow_workload_ring_buffer()
SF Markus Elfring
elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Oct 24 14:51:54 UTC 2017
>> … It's just that two out of three error
>> messages happened to be the same and Markus wants to save a bit of
>> memory by using the same string. The memory savings is not so big that
>> it's worth making the code less readable.
>
> I agree with Dan.
>
> It doesn't save any real memory either as the compiler/linker
> reuses the repeated string.
It might depend on passing appropriate parameters.
> It might, depending on the compiler, save a few bytes of
> object code as the compiler may not optimize the repeated
> call away though.
I am trying to show corresponding change possibilities.
> But a good compiler could do that too.
Do you prefer to delegate the proposed software refactoring
only to a corresponding optimiser?
Regards,
Markus
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